From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it. This book chronicles the turning of a year in Dara’s Northern Ireland home patch. Beginning in spring, these diary entries about his connection to wildlife and the way he sees the world are vivid, evocative, and moving.

“I do love these stories. They enrich my life as a young naturalist. Science, yes, always science. But we need these lost connections, they feed our imagination, bring wild characters to life, and remind us that we’re not separate from nature but part of it.”

Dara McAnulty “Diary of a Young Naturalist”. Published by Little Toller in 2020. Donated to the library by Little Toller ❤️

Photos by Anna Iltnere / Sea Library